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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

Designating rocks just a few kilometres across as moons is misleading and ridiculous. We need to do a Pluto and cut moons down to size, argues Leah Crane

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Blue Origin assembles space industry dream team to build moon lander

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Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

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Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

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Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

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Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

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Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology

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Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity's future

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity's future

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UK space academy boss Anu Ojha on what finding aliens might mean

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UK space academy boss Anu Ojha on what finding aliens might mean

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Composite image of Borisov

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We can send a probe to interstellar comet Borisov – but not until 2030

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Map of gas filaments and galxies

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We've had our best glimpse of a web of matter that spans the universe

A vast spider web of matter is thought to stretch across the universe. Now astronomers have seen its filaments between several galaxies for the first time

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The imperial units error that downed a multi-million-dollar Mars probe

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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

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How to call the International Space Station

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Exclusive: Rocket test in Alaska polluted 230 tonnes of soil

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